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Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject.

It was the end of the school day. The children at Plaza Towers Elementary School were stuffing their backpacks, looking forward to going home, playing with friends, eating snacks.

A field trip turned tragic for a group of fourth-graders in Minnesota when gravel drenched by rain gave way, killing two children and injuring two others.

It seems that anytime Brad Pitt speaks, the world stops to listen, and his latest interview with Esquire has been no exception.

A June sentencing date has been scheduled for a suburban Chicago man who was arrested after 2 of his children were found bound and blindfolded in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas.

A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.

The following story was provided by AOLJobs.com By David Schepp Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people.

Two Oklahoma teenagers used their cell phones from inside a storm shelter to capture video of a deadly tornado that passed through their neighborhood on Monday.

Over the last decade, the number of American children who die each year awaiting an organ donation dropped by more than half, new research reveals.

Sex and relationships education should be compulsory in secondary schools as ministers are failing to take action to protect children and women, a damning report has claimed.

The father of a seven-year-old boy whose mouth was allegedly taped closed by an after-school monitor says school officials in Halifax reacted slowly and incompletely to the incident.

Doctors used a 3-D printer to create a tiny, bioresorbable scaffold like this one to implant in Kaiba Gionfriddo's windpipe to keep it from collapsing.

The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says two infants are among 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week.

Two infants were among the 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Florida's per-pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation according to data compiled by the U.S. Census.

The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water.

A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday.

No study to date has controlled for these factors. "Secondhand smoke is in fact more dangerous that inhaled smoke, and 40% of children worldwide are exposed to it.

The state medical examiner's office says 24 people were killed in Moore, including nine children.